remorse : A gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs.

If you feel remorse you must feel guilty of doing something wrong. I understand what you are feeling. It's not remorse.

I agree with this. I'm not remorseful as much as having a feeling of deep gratitude for the life I have just taken.

I would describe my feelings as an overwhelmeing sense of thanks to the animal and our creator.

I don't feel sorry for the animal but do feelcompassionate that its free life has come to an end.....as will ours someday......

Okay, remorse isn't the right word, it was just the first that came to mind.

Gratitude is obviously there, but that isn't it either. Gratitude would be my simply being thankful, and that isn't just it.

Anyhow, I think y'all know what I'm getting at for the most part.

I feeltotal respect and gratefulness but not remorse!!!!

All I know is it differs with our Generation, in my grampa's day. The one that stopped would have got shot also

My cousin and I use to have rule, no shooting game in front of the cabin. Gramps got wind of this and waxed a bunny eating in the yard.
Look at us and said "These eat just the same, and if you don't shoot them, somebody else will"[8D]

I feel thankful at the end of a hunt and kill.

I think we all understand! I think a lot of non hunting people think that we just love killing things. That we don't care about the animals we hunt. I think hunters as a whole love animals more than most others. Because we care so much we feel a sense of loss when we kill one. Then why do we hunt? I believe it's because we are preditory by nature.

Remorse is as close to the description that I feel ..... not the definition you quoted, Magic ..... but look at definition #2

remorse Definition

re·morse (ri môrs′)

noun
[*]a deep, torturing sense of guilt felt over a wrong that one has done; self-reproach[*]pity; compassion: [/ol][/align][/align]

I like the word compassion. I think that might be as close to how we feel as words can describe.

I like the term compassion as well.